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- JANUARY 23, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling that...
The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced Xue Song, a 30 year old Chinese national, to death for murdering a Chinese woman and her husband after the woman had rejected his advances
- JANUARY 23, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling that...
The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced Xue Song, a 30 year old Chinese national, to death for murdering a Chinese woman and her husband after the woman had rejected his advances
- JANUARY 23, 2004MississippiDEATH PENALTY
A Marion County jury on handed down the death penalty...
A Marion County jury on handed down the death penalty to Cory Maye for killing police officer Ron Jones
- JANUARY 22, 2004SwitzerlandDEATH PENALTY
The Swiss Federal Council and other European countries...
The Swiss Federal Council and other European countries should concede political asylum to the People's Mujahedin members living in Iraq, over whom hangs the threat of expulsion
- JANUARY 22, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
The Swiss Federal Council and other European countries...
The Swiss Federal Council and other European countries should concede political asylum to the People's Mujahedin members living in Iraq, over whom hangs the threat of expulsion
- JANUARY 22, 2004ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
Zambia army officers and men at Gondar barracks near...
Zambia army officers and men at Gondar barracks near Chipata, a town 569km east of Lusaka, submitted to the Constitutional Review Commission to abolish the death penalty in the laws of Zambia and replace it with life imprisonment
- JANUARY 22, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Sunamganj, Bangladesh, sentenced Taleb Uddin...
A court in Sunamganj, Bangladesh, sentenced Taleb Uddin to death by hanging and two others to life imprisonment for murder
- JANUARY 22, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Marivic Genosa, a woman jailed and convicted for the...
Marivic Genosa, a woman jailed and convicted for the murder of her husband, had her death sentence commuted to six years imprisonment by the Philippine's Supreme Court due to "mitigating circumstances"
- JANUARY 22, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Teo Yeow Chuah, a 31 year old man convicted of possessing 55
Teo Yeow Chuah, a 31 year old man convicted of possessing 55
- JANUARY 22, 2004IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that former Gov
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that former Gov
- JANUARY 22, 2004PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
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- JANUARY 22, 2004SamoaDEATH PENALTY
Members of Samoa's Parliament passed a law abolishing...
Members of Samoa's Parliament passed a law abolishing the death penalty in that South Pacific country
- JANUARY 22, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
the judge in Department 1157 of Tehran's criminal court issued the death sentence for a man
the judge in Department 1157 of Tehran's criminal court issued the death sentence for a man
- JANUARY 21, 2004North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
Starving North Koreans have been publicly executed...
Starving North Koreans have been publicly executed for stealing food and others have died of malnutrition in labour camps, Amnesty International said in a report
- JANUARY 21, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Naogaon, Bangladesh, sentenced Quamruzzaman...
A court in Naogaon, Bangladesh, sentenced Quamruzzaman and Afsar Ali to death and three others to life, two years and six years imprisonment for killing a co-villager
- JANUARY 21, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Kevin Lee Zimmerman, 42, was executed today for the...
Kevin Lee Zimmerman, 42, was executed today for the 1987 robbery and murder of Leslie Gilbert Hooks Jr
- JANUARY 21, 2004TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
Pat Bondurant, now 49, has been sentenced to death...
Pat Bondurant, now 49, has been sentenced to death after a retrial on charges of beating Ronnie Gaines to death in 1986
- JANUARY 21, 2004DEATH PENALTY
"Lawmakers took a step toward changing the way Utah...
"Lawmakers took a step toward changing the way Utah carries out the death penalty, unanimously passing out of committee a bill that would repeal the use of the firing squad
- JANUARY 21, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
the judge in Tehran's penal court sentenced a man
the judge in Tehran's penal court sentenced a man
- JANUARY 21, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
the judiciary sentenced a man to public execution in Tehran
the judiciary sentenced a man to public execution in Tehran
- JANUARY 20, 2004KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Kuwaiti authorities publicly displayed the corpse of...
Kuwaiti authorities publicly displayed the corpse of Fazel Shirin Mohammad Sherif, 35, a Pakistani heroin trafficker who was hanged in front of the interior ministry in Kuwait City in the fourth execution of a drug dealer since the introduction in 1995 of
- JANUARY 20, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Kuwaiti authorities publicly displayed the corpse of...
Kuwaiti authorities publicly displayed the corpse of Fazel Shirin Mohammad Sherif, 35, a Pakistani heroin trafficker who was hanged in front of the interior ministry in Kuwait City in the fourth execution of a drug dealer since the introduction in 1995 of
- JANUARY 20, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippines' Supreme Court agreed to consider new...
The Philippines' Supreme Court agreed to consider new evidence that could prove the innocence of Roberto Lara and Roderick Licayan, two men on death row who were convicted of kidnapping and were scheduled for execution on January 30
- JANUARY 20, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian dissident intellectual Hashem Aghajari, condemned...
Iranian dissident intellectual Hashem Aghajari, condemned to death for blasphemy after questioning the power of the clergy, was to have his case re-examined after February's parliamentary elections, a judiciary official said
- JANUARY 20, 2004IraqDEATH PENALTY
Five thousand Shiite Muslims marched through Baghdad...
Five thousand Shiite Muslims marched through Baghdad demanding the execution of Saddam Hussein
- JANUARY 20, 2004JordanDEATH PENALTY
Jordan's state prosecutor, Mahmud Obeidat, called for...
Jordan's state prosecutor, Mahmud Obeidat, called for the death penalty for 11 people on trial over the murder of Laurence Foley, a US Agency for International Development official, in 2002
- JANUARY 20, 2004IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
Governor signs death penalty reforms At the same time...
Governor signs death penalty reforms At the same time he signed into law a sweeping reform of Illinois' death penalty
- JANUARY 19, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The traditional upsurge in executions ahead of the...
The traditional upsurge in executions ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday gathered pace with 15 more people reported to have been put to death, bringing to at least 31 the number executed in a period of a week, AFP reported
- JANUARY 19, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Hanif Hawlader, 27, of Damudarkati village in Uzirpur,...
Hanif Hawlader, 27, of Damudarkati village in Uzirpur, Bangladesh, was sentenced to death by a court in Barisal, Bangladesh, for killing his wife for dowry
- JANUARY 19, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
An appeal from Pope John Paul II would not stop the...
An appeal from Pope John Paul II would not stop the Philippine government from carrying out the scheduled execution of two convicts this month, President Gloria Arroyo's spokesman, Ignacio Bunye, said